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Bambu Lab Firmware Update Forces Cloud Dependency & User Lock-In - AVOID THEIR 3D PRINTERS! (youtu.be)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Some of this I think still goes for hobbyists if they plan to buy the printer as a kit. The first (of like, eight) Prusas I built I had a hell of a time assembling the extruder mech because it's not designed to be easy or sane to assemble, I still pinched wires, not bad enough to break anything but still. And I had built several 3D printers and a couple laser engravers prior to this.

And that PINDA probe mount is still hilariously delicate.

As a hobbyist machine that will spend most of its time powered off, they're fine. For their gantry mechanism and the 8-bit control board, they're surprisingly high quality if slightly slow printers.

Oh there's another thing: The Prusa community is in the bad habit of sharing G-Code rather than STLs, because everyone everywhere has the same printer, right?

My personal printer is still my first manually leveled Folger 2020 i3 with some customization of mine, and I don't need another.